Nepal subnational analytics for local economic development

Review provinces and municipalities coverage, compare population and PIL indicators, and trace which planning documents are available for analysis.

Analyze municipality metrics

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Main tasks for this workspace

Jump directly into comparison, evidence review, planning brief, document readiness, or release trust checks.

CompareCompare municipalities across PIL score space.Map & driversRead mapped indicator gaps and score-driver waterfalls.Planning briefRun staged AI planning evidence with cache provenance.Document readinessInspect local plan source coverage and readiness.Trust centerReview release coverage, boundaries, caveats, and AI readiness.

Country Trust Card

Release trust and AI readiness

npl-2025-v1 · PIL v1.5

Data coverageReady

751 municipalities

2025 release npl-2025-v1

Boundary qualityPartial

20 gaps

751 mapped municipalities

Plan readinessPartial

86% sourced

6 of 7 provinces have plan sources

AI readinessPartial

Partial

Planning documents are available for AI-assisted analysis.

Caveats

Generated release metadata reflects the currently loaded LDT analytics package.
20 boundary features do not have matching analytics rows.

Country snapshot

Population covered

29.2 million

Land area covered

143,501.1 sq km

National development plan

Sixteenth Plan, 2024-2028

Country context

Why this workspace matters

Nepal provides the baseline country workspace for the LDT, with local analytics organized around provinces, districts, and municipalities across a multi-year score release.

Source references

National Planning Commission

The workspace is useful for comparing municipality-level variation across terrain, population distribution, and service access patterns.

Planning-document coverage is organized at province level for AI-assisted local plan context.

The latest release now supports 2021-2025 time-series exploration for the core PIL scores.

Administrative context

Admin levels 1 and 2 in Nepal

The LDT uses Nepal's province-to-local-level structure so users can compare municipalities while still reading results in their provincial planning context.

In the 2025 LDT release, Admin level 1 includes 7 provinces, and Admin level 2 includes 751 municipalities.

As Nepal transitions into a three-tier federal administrative system, the district level, comprised of 77 distinct regions, is removed from the main LDT two-level rollup. What remains is the federal level, provincial level, and local / municipal level.

Admin level 1Province: Provinces are the higher subnational frame used on the country page to group municipalities and summarize geographic coverage.
Admin level 2Municipality / local level: Municipalities and rural municipalities are the local government units used for LDT analytics. Nepal's local level includes metropolitan cities, sub-metropolitan cities, municipalities, and rural municipalities.

Sources

Local government in Nepal Administrative divisions of Nepal

Administrative levels

Provinces and Municipalities

This country entry point focuses on the subnational tiers used in the LDT: 7 provinces and 751 municipalities in the 2025 release.

Detailed SNG metrics

Municipalities metrics and population distribution

Load the full chart and sortable table when you need the detailed municipality records. Keeping this optional makes the Nepal landing page faster while preserving access to the complete dataset.

Development plan source availability

Planning documents are available for AI-assisted analysis. This section tracks which provinces currently have local/SNG plan links available for AI-assisted analysis.

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YesPlan source available

NoPlan source not available